Wyncote News

Elkins Park, Pa. - June 30, 2009 -- Alysse Einbender,49, of Wyncote, Pennsylvania is learning to stand and walk again with the help of a device called the ReWalk.

A veteran of the Philadelphia airwaves, Patty Jackson has played her share of Michael Jackson songs as a disk jockey.

A Pennsylvania rehabilitation hospital has started the first U.S. clinical trials of a motorized robotic suit that uses computer sensors to help paralyzed patients stand and walk.

A Montgomery County, Pa. woman is the first American to use a device that helps some wheelchair users walk again.

Each year on the boardwalk, thousands of french fries are consumed by beachgoers, snatched by seagulls or tossed in the trash at the end of the day.

"These businesses collected taxes from their customers and employees but failed to send the money to the commonwealth," Stetler said.

His finalist project : Writing a computer program to image the structure of different compounds based on their chemical name What led to the project: In the early 1970s Michael First's Philadelphia-area high school purchased some computer terminals and subscribed to a local time-sharing service.

Despite what had been a long, arduous journey, Larry E. Campbell Jr., 18, was beaming as he strode across a platform last night to collect his high school diploma from Wyncote Academy.

Flashing red lights woke me up this morning. First was a voice message, from a woman who wanted to kiss me when she came to my kicker into today's column about SEPTA's plans to build a parking garage at the Jenkintown Train Station: Build it! Second message came via Facebook, from a former colleague who informed me I had just missed the boat.

Spent Memorial Day with friends in Wyncote - chicken on the grill, kids on the porch, and no sign of the peril that's got all the neighbors sticking placards in the ground warning: "Save Our Township." The threat? SEPTA wants to build a parking garage at the Jenkintown train station.

Ariana's, named for the owner's daughter, is just one of Franco Frederico's family of restaurants in Montgomery County.

The battle over proposed parking garages at SEPTA regional rail stations has taken another step -- on paper.

Dead fan Murray Levin, of Wyncote, sent along this iPhone photo of Kate Smith geting her tie dye on, outside the Spectrum.

Disrespected. Taken for granted. Those are the feelings that drove Sheldon Brown to request a trade, and to make that request public.

If you're a commuter driving to the Jenkintown-Wyncote train station around 8 a.m., the clock is ticking and it's your worst enemy.

Over the last two decades, the Jewish community has poured tremendous resources into attracting and engaging young people, looking to cement a new generation's ties to Judaism as early as possible.

Talk about your wake-up calls! On April 8, hundreds gathered atop the roof of the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute, waiting under a pre-dawn sky to celebrate Birkat Hachammah, or the "Blessing Over the Sun," an obscure talmudic ritual that occurs only once every 28 years, when the sun is said to return to the same place as at the moment ...

Nina Mandel took the less-traveled road on her way to a career as a rabbi with Congregation Beth El, but she doesn't regret it.

Every day, Olanta Wiggins calls hospitals and morgues in Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery counties, looking for her son.

On April 8, 1981, the last time that Jews observed a rare Jewish ritual revolving around the sun, the Phillies were coming off a World Series championship, and a new president was set to steer the nation out of ...